In 2023, a Philadelphia jury ordered Mitsubishi to pay nearly $1 billion to a New Hope man, a quadriplegic who was injured in a 2017 accident.
The huge verdict was front-page news. When an appellate court vacated it two years later, not so much. Should the case have been tried before a Bucks County jury rather than in Philadelphia in the first place? The accident happened in Buckingham Township.
Another supersized verdict involved a Roundup [herbicide] claim in which the plaintiff was a Lycoming County resident and the alleged use happened near Williamsport. That case was tried in Philadelphia, where a jury awarded the plaintiff $2.25 billion…